Richard Barasch

Interim Chief Executive Officer

Richard Barasch was named interim CEO of AdaptHealth in July 2023. Mr. Barasch has served as Chairman of the Board since 2019 and has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare services, health insurance, and related industries. Mr. Barasch was Chief Executive Officer of Universal American Corp., a publicly-traded health insurance and services company focused on the senior market and government programs, from 1995 until Universal American’s acquisition by WellCare Health Plans in May 2017. Mr. Barasch has developed an extensive network of contacts throughout the healthcare industry and speaks regularly at industry conferences as a healthcare services expert. He is currently on the Board of Directors of ELMC Risk Management Inc., HouseWorks, LLC and Quest Analytics. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Health Policy and Management program at the Columbia University School of Public Health, where he is also an Assistant Adjunct Professor, and the Brown School of Public Health. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Barasch graduated from Swarthmore College and Columbia University Law School.

Christie Archbold

Chief Accounting Officer

Christie Archbold joined AdaptHealth in 2022 as Senior Vice President of Corporate Accounting and was promoted to Chief Accounting Officer in 2023. Prior to joining the Company, she served in a variety of senior financial management roles, including Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at Clarivate from 2017 to 2022, and Global Controller and Director of Financial Reporting at Houghton International from 2011 to 2017. In these roles, Ms. Archbold had overall responsibility for the controllership, financial reporting, and systems of internal controls. Previously, Ms. Archbold was an auditor with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Ms. Archbold holds a B.S. in Accounting from Saint Joseph’s University.

Joshua Parnes

President

Joshua Parnes joined AdaptHealth Holdings in 2013 with the acquisition of Ocean Home Health and was appointed President of AdaptHealth Holdings in August 2017. Mr. Parnes has served on our board of directors since the closing of the business combination. Mr. Parnes is an HME entrepreneur building Ocean Home Health from a startup into a tech focused HME provider and has over 16 years of operating experience in the home medical equipment industry. Mr. Parnes focuses on technology, strategy and operations.

Jason Clemens

Chief Financial Officer

Jason Clemens joined AdaptHealth from MEDNAX, Inc. (“MEDNAX”) (NYSE: MD), a national provider of health solutions to hospitals, health systems, and healthcare facilities, where he served as Senior Vice President and Operations Chief Financial Officer. Over a nine-year career at MEDNAX, Mr. Clemens held positions of increasing responsibility in operations management and finance. Prior to joining MEDNAX, Mr. Clemens gained experience with the United States Army, supporting the Republic of Korea Army in Wonju, South Korea. He later served in progressive roles within operations management and finance at Accenture, Lennar, and Ryder. Mr. Clemens holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, and an M.S. in Finance and M.B.A. from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt.

Dan Bunting

Special Advisor to CEO

Dan Bunting joined AdaptHealth as Chief Operating Officer of Field Operations in 2020. Mr. Bunting most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer for AeroCare Holidings, Inc. located in Orlando, FL, and was the CEO of evo Medical Solutions, in Adel, IA. With over three decades of leadership experience, Mr. Bunting has an extensive background in operations and strategy as he started his career in the HME industry working as a delivery technician while attending graduate school. Always looking for growth opportunities, Mr. Bunting went on to start a DME company in Iowa which eventually sold to Rotech Medical. Mr. Bunting holds an undergraduate degree in accounting and finance from the University of Dubuque and an MBA in finance from the University of Iowa.

Shaw Rietkerk

Chief Operating Officer

Shaw Rietkerk joined AdaptHealth Holdings in 2018. Mr. Rietkerk most recently served as Executive Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management at Brightree. Mr. Rietkerk has over two decades of healthcare service leadership experience, with an extensive background in revenue cycle management, operations, business process outsourcing, account management and process optimization. Prior to joining Brightree in 2015, Mr. Rietkerk was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations at M*Modal, a leading healthcare technology provider of advanced clinical documentation solutions.

Wendy Russalesi

Chief Compliance Officer

Wendy Russalesi, CHC, joined AdaptHealth in 2013 with the acquisition of Ocean Home Health where she served as Chief Operating Officer. She has more than three decades experience building, scaling and overseeing regulatory compliance programs for prominent home medical equipment companies. Ms. Russalesi has been named Woman of the Year by VGM, the nation’s largest post-acute healthcare member organization. Ms. Russalesi actively serves on the Health Care Compliance Association, the Regulatory Council of the American Association for Homecare, the Noridian DME MAC Provider Outreach and Education Advisory Group and the National Supplier Clearinghouse Advisory Committee.

Albert Prast

Chief Technology Officer

Albert Prast joined AdaptHealth through its acquisition of AeroCare Holdings, Inc. in 2021, and brings over 30 years of technology operations & strategy and product development experience. Prior to AeroCare, Albert served as SVP of Cloud Technology at UnitedHealth Group, CTO of Cloud at Optum, CIO of Connextions Inc., and CTO/CIO of Rotech Medical Corporation. Albert is an executive who brings technical and operational experience from the payer, provider, and delivery sides of health care. Mr. Prast received his A.B. of Economics from the University of Michigan, as well as an MBA from Rollins College. He is an active investor in health care and technology companies, bringing his expertise to the board of organizations, including Datalink Software, ClinOne, and RxRevu.

Joel Mills

Chief People Officer

Joel Mills has been the Chief People Officer of AdaptHealth since March 1, 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Mills was the President and CEO of Advanced Home Care from 1988 – 2020. During that time, Advanced Home Care grew to be one of the largest hospital affiliate home healthcare companies in the country. Mr. Mills has been involved in the home medical equipment industry for many years as a founding member and former chair of the American Association for Homecare. Additionally, he has served on many state and local non-profit boards related to health, education, and community philanthropy. Mr. Mills holds his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his Master in Business from Duke University.

Christopher Joyce

General Counsel

Christopher Joyce joined AdaptHealth Holdings in 2018 as its General Counsel. Mr. Joyce has over 25 years of experience as chief legal officer and business development executive for publicly-traded and privately-held provider-based and managed care companies. Mr. Joyce most recently served as General Counsel of InnovaCare, Inc., a $2.0 billion managed care insurance company with 450,000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Mr. Joyce holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany and a JD from the University of Chicago.

Leila Vargas

Executive Vice President - Sales & Marketing

Leila Vargas joined AdaptHealth in 2021 as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing with 15+ years’ experience in the home medical equipment industry. As a transformational leader and culture creator with a strong passion for driving sales success, Ms. Vargas leads AdaptHealth’s best-in-class national Sales Team through training, education, motivation, and aggressive growth strategies. Ms. Vargas develops creative marketing programs to promote the AdaptHealth brand as a patient-centered organization and is committed to living out AdaptHealth’s brand promise of empowering patients to live their best lives.

Ms. Vargas launched her sales career with Lincare before moving on to AeroCare Holdings, Inc., where she was consistently a Top Ten Sales Representative. This led to expanded leadership roles in sales, marketing, operations, and corporate training.

Specialties include public speaking, sales and operations strategy, marketing and brand elevation, sales recruiting and training, CRM development, strategic planning, process improvement, problem solving, and team building.

Ms. Vargas earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University.

Rodney Carson

President & Chief Operating Officer – Diabetes

Rodney Carson joined AdaptHealth in 2020 as President and Chief Operating Officer – Diabetes, responsible for leading and growing the business. He has led the diabetes team in combining multiple acquisitions into one of the largest and best in class operations within this industry subsector. With more than 20 years in healthcare operations leadership roles, Mr. Carson previously served as President and CEO of CCS Medical and as President of Operations for MDLIVE, a leading telehealth company. He started his career as a CPA and moved into finance and investment banking prior to entering the healthcare industry. Mr. Carson earned an MBA and bachelor’s in business and accounting from Indiana University.